No AuthorLe Costume au Theatre: 50 Planches en Couleurs 1890. Hardcover. Good. Cernuschi; Mesples; Mucha. No place: No publisher listed, no date (circa 1890). Hardcover. Unpaginated. Very good. 50 color plates depicting costumes from various operas. Soil and light wear to the boards and spine. A few pages toned, likely from being printed on inferior paper stock. Half of the front free endpaper has been torn away while the rear free endpaper is missing entirely. Extremely scarce. We see no other copies offered for sale and only three copies through OCLC, all in Europe (April 2016).

Guignard, R Mon Oncle Gaspard. Album a Transformations Paris: Nouvelle Librairie de la Jeunesse, 1890. Small quarto. (14)pp. A stencil-colored transformation book, with each page cut into three sections so that one can make numerous combinations of the head, body, and legs of "Mon Oncle Gaspard." The Gaspards range in profession and character, from a top-hat-wearing musician and a book-reading academic, to a pipe-smoking cat fancier and a mustachioed gentleman who seems unaware of the proper way to hold an infant. Bound in paper over boards with a cloth spine, front cover illustrated with a toy-bearing Gaspard. Some soiling, else a fine copy of this rare item.

CHARLES DARWIN.:THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION, OR THE PRESERVATION OF FAVOURED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE. London, John Murray, 1890. Sixth edition with additions and corrections to 1872, 1890 (thirty-ninth thousand). 8vo, approximately 195 x 125 mm, 7½ x 5 inches, folding chart, pages: xxi, 458 including index, plus 32 page publisher's catalogue dated April 1889, in the original publisher's dark green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, blind-stamped border to covers, original pale blue and white patterned endpapers. Slightest wear to head and tail of spine, a touch of rubbing to hinges and lower corners, faint browning to endpapers, no inscriptions, tiny tip of 1 lower corner missing, small closed tear to margin of final page of text, neatly repaired. A very good plus copy, contents clean and bright. See R. B. Freeman, The Works of Charles Darwin, pages 79-81 and page 88 reference 436. This is a reprint of the edition of 1876 which contained the final text as Darwin left it and which contained small differences in text from the edition of 1872. The word 'evolution' was used for the first time in the 6th edition of 1872 of The Origin of Species on page 201 (twice) and page 424 (3 times). Darwin had used it before in the first edition of the Descent of Man in the previous year but it doesn't appear in The Origin of Species until 1872. The title changed to The Origin of Species from On the Origin of Species in the edition of 1872 and a Glossary was added by W. S. Dallas. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Nu'man effendi Antone (a member of the Ehyptian post)Kitab al ta'ir al ghirrid fi wasf al barid (The songbird in describing the post) about the post history Cairo: al- Muktataf press, 1890 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7Â¾ - 9Â¾" tall. Un usual work on the history of the post in Arabic printed in Egypt 1890. 232 p. including introduction with dedication to Joseph Pasha Saba, the general director of the Egyptian post. Modern Hard cover binding..

AnonymousRARE Victorian Broadside Ephemera - Turks & Caicos - Mail Manifest London, 1890. London, 25 November 1890. Packet steamer broadside presenting an itinerary for mail delivery in the year 1891 to Grand Turk Island and Bermuda in the British West Indies, via Londonderry and Halifax in Nova Scotia, a service then recently established and offered by Pickford & Black of Halifax, from 1888, with the ship 'Alpha' which was formerly a Cunard Line vessel. Folio. Printed ephemeral document on a light blue leaf, measuring approximately 32,5 x 20,5 cm. Printed for Her Majesty's [Queen Victoria] Stationery Office. Faint indication of moisture to margins, unobtrusive to text, otherwise in very good condition. Colonial Philatelic Material from the Turks and Caicos is exceedingly scarce. The Nova Scotia Archives (CNSA), Halifax, holds a Pickford & Black collection comprising business and shipping records, detailed registers and manifests, ship logs and so forth.. Very Good.

Philately; Australia].The Federal Australian Philatelist. A.F. Basset Hull, 1890-1891, Hobart: - Six issues of this illustrated journal for Australian stamp collectors published quarterly from January 1890 to October 1891. Later absorbed by Vindin Philatelic Monthly. With illustrations and descriptions of stamps, plus many advertisements. Vol. II, No. 5 has a portrait of and one page article on Rev. P.E. Raynor '.We present our readers with a portrait of Rev. P.E. Raynor, MA of St. Peter's College, Adelaide, the President of the Philatelic Society of South Australia.' This set includes April 1890, (2) of January 1891, April 1891, July 1891, October 1891. 5 1/4 X 8 1/4", tan paper wraps, staple bound, covers dusty, chipped at edges, both Jan. 1891 vols. covers detached but present, interiors clean. OCLC: 15171282; Trove 4841712. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

CHARLES DARWIN :THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION, OR THE PRESERVATION OF FAVOURED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE London, John Murray, 1890.. Sixth edition with additions and corrections to 1872, 1890 (thirty-ninth thousand). 8vo, approximately 195 x 125 mm, 7Â½ x 5 inches, folding chart, pages: xxi, 458 including index, plus 32 page publisher's catalogue dated April 1889, in the original publisher's dark green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, blind-stamped border to covers, original pale blue and white patterned endpapers. Slightest wear to head and tail of spine, a touch of rubbing to hinges and lower corners, faint browning to endpapers, no inscriptions, tiny tip of 1 lower corner missing, small closed tear to margin of final page of text, neatly repaired. A very good plus copy, contents clean and bright. See R. B. Freeman, The Works of Charles Darwin, pages 79-81 and page 88 reference 436. This is a reprint of the edition of 1876 which contained the final text as Darwin left it and which contained small differences in text from the edition of 1872. The word 'evolution' was used for the first time in the 6th edition of 1872 of The Origin of Species on page 201 (twice) and page 424 (3 times). Darwin had used it before in the first edition of the Descent of Man in the previous year but it doesn't appear in The Origin of Species until 1872. The title changed to The Origin of Species from On the Origin of Species in the edition of 1872 and a Glossary was added by W. S. Dallas. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Greenaway, KateKate Greenaway's Almanack for 1891 George Routledge and Sons, [1890]. 48mo; [24] pages Cloth-backed paper-covered gilt- and color-decorated boards, a. E. G, blue clay-paper endpages, in the original printed paper dust-wrapper; illustrated in color throughout. Book is very near fine, with just a small scrape to the lower inner corner of the front pastedown; jacket is remarkably fine, with just a little offsetting from the colored endpapers to one edge of the front flap;Kate Greenaway's "1891" publication in her Almanack series, published for the years 1883 through 1897, except 1896. Republished in the late 1920s with the illustrations of the original series

Henning, Ingenieur Hauptmann (Adolf Wilhelm).Unsere Festungen. ("Virtus ariete fortior"). I. Das letzte Jahrzehnt. Rückblicke und Schlussfolgerungen; II: Versuch einer practischen Lösung. Berlin, Bath 1890 - Two parts in one volume. Paginated consequentially. Pp. (iv), 54; (2), 57-212. Woodcut illustrated title-page. Plus 19 woodcut illustrations of which 18 are full-page plates and one is in the form of text figure. Includes bibliography. Half-title present. Hardcover, bound in contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt, old shelf ticket to spine, old institutional stamps to prelims and title; boards slightly rubbed, slight wear at head of spine, some spots and the odd finger smudge. In a very good condition. Overall an excellent copy. ~ First edition. Jordan 1645. At the end of the Preface, Henning writes: "Wir versuchen dies unter dem Panier: 'Virtus ariete fortior'." He repeats this motto several times throughout the book. In 1885 Henning published a slim book at the same title (Berlin, Mittler, Pp. 55) which was an offprint with three of his articles which appeared in "Archiv für die Artillerie und Ingenieur-Offiziere des deutschen Reichsheeres". In 1892 he published, (Berlin, Bath), his "Die Küstenvertheidigung. Fortsetzung von 'Unsere Festungen'". Adolf Wilhelm Henning, Captain of Engineers, (1809-1900). Extremely scarce.

WHISTLER, James MacNeilThe Gentle Art of Making Enemies. 1890 - Illustrations in the text. First English edition. 8vo., original tan cloth spine over light brown paper boards, the spine lettered in black, gilt monogram, the upper cover lettered in gilt with the gilt butterfly motif, uncut. London, William Heinemann. A remarkable presentation copy, from one great painter to another, inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper 'To Albert Moore - from his friend and admirer' signed with a variation of Whistler's famous butterfly monogram. Albert Moore managed the impressive feat of maintaining a long friendship with Whistler, begun when Moore was 23 and Whistler 30. Moore is said to have encouraged Whistler's interest in Japanese art, possibly during their long conversations when going for night-long rowing trips on the Thames, or over frequent dinners. Spine scuffed over the lettering, just bumped at the head and tail, the covers lightly scratched and spotted, lower edges shelf worn, some foxing to the edges and endpapers. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

Nansen, FridtjofThe First Crossing of Greenland: Two Volumes Longmans, Green, and Co., London 1890 - 1890. Two Volumes. Thick Octavo's. xxii, 510pp, 24pp publisher's catalogue. x, 509pp. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with silver gilt titles and illustrative decoration. T.E.G. Fading to spines and board edges. Rubbing and slight bumping to extremities. Some light surface wear to boards. Spines just slightly cocked. Illustrated with plates, woodcuts in text and folding maps. First map of volume I having tears near hinge, the map itself is unaffected. Previous owners surname in ink to top corners of first blank leaves. Some occasional light spotting but generally clean and bright internally. Overall a Very Good set. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

[Fabric Sample Book]BRITISH SCHOOL / COLLEGE / CLUB / REGIMENTAL TIES (n. p.), 1890. Binding black half-leather with blue pebbled cloth boards. Pale yellow eps. Binding lacks 1/2 cm leather at base of spine. Hinges starting. Pink binder's ticket [A. P. Dixon. Cambridge] to rear paste-down. Withal, the volume in solid Very Good condition.. 20 leaves of stiff-stock mounting paper, of which 17 are employed for display of the samples. 115 tie fabric samples [most ~ 1-3/4" x 1-1/8"] mounted to leaf rectos, with 112 captioned as to the associated entity. Fabric samples accompanied by 21 affixed postcards [opposite samples, on leaf verso] depicted associated institutions [e.g., Trinity College, Cambridge]. Laid-in are an additional 7 sheets [7-1/4" x 5-3/8"] of photogravure (?) images, depicting 14 colleges, one over the other [e.g., St. Catharine's College & Magdalen College]. Binding: 9-7/8" x 7-5/8" "In 1880, the rowing club of Oxford University's Exeter College apparently decided to modify their costume and create the first club or school tie by removing the ribbon hat bands from their boaters and tying them, four-in-hand, at their necks. They placed an order for proper ties, identical to their colored hat bands, with a local outfitter on June 25 that year, and the practice spread rapidly. ... Soon public schools joined in, producing school and old boys ties from the 1890s. ... a public school tie of any type at least told the watching world that the wearer's family had a certain amount of money and that the wearer was pretty much guaranteed to have decent table manners and to speak the Queen's English. Each tie, whether regimental, club, sporting or educational, contained coded information about the wearer's background and aspirations - and the vast Victorian middle class loved them." [Gibbings. The TIE, pp. 80-81].Here offered an apparently unique gathering of 115 different fabric samples of the divers school & regimental ties that dominated Bristish male fashion from the 1890s on.